/lit/ - Literature

>>14654780
(Not him). He didn't say that, he said the story was not an allegory- ie that the ring was nuclear power or something. Of course the book is FULL of 'hidden meanings'. Tolkien went deep into language mythology and religion. Here is one example but let's not make this a tangent: Gandalf, Frodo, and Aragorn all symbolise on some level aspects of the Christ or saviour archetype, and each character goes through a form of death/rebirth. Ok, so this doesn't mean that the story is an allegory for Christianity (as with CS Lewis), but rather that Tolkien's work encompasses some of the same profound psychological truths as are found in the NT. There are MANY MANY other similar examples of stuff like this. I don't fully buy into OP's Jew narrative but I would like to come to his defence here against claims that there are 'no hidden meanings' in Tolkien, nothing could be further from the truth.